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"I will quit the neighborhood of man.."..Dr.V.Frankenstein
Marionette's of papyrus perform Frankenstein
behind a tattered screen,
overlooking the hot spring.
Through the steam
the audience consists,
only of silver monkeys bathing.
You wonder if they just feign
disinterest in the puppetry.
Their sneers and rituals mimic
perfectly the preoccupations of the departed crowd.
Who groomed and chattered
just as,
waiting their turn to submerse.
But you know the creaking paper means nothing to them.
Just some moths that flutter stupidly
at the sash.
The Monster sees us the same way,
scratching at a caul -
he disembarks down to the ice.

Original Post Febuary 18, 2004
The process of activating content in the arts takes many paths. Content is meaning transmitted. Meaning migrates to its intended along different lines of approach determined in part by the medium it is embedded in. These lines of approach are distinguished and defined be the senses they must serve. This lines can be though of as the optimum pathway into the consciousness of the viewer/audience/reader. paradoxically the most effective manifestation of this migration from object to consciousness is for the visual arts is sort of a back door. Visual arts, through the arrangement of forms and values, appeals directly to the non-verbal. This is a pre-conscious bandwidth, a frequency which can potentially communicate directly to the emotional and intuitive faculties of viewer.
I believe in the power of the non-verbal. But we live in a age which is not only literate, (used to having meaning tidily served up by dissections of rhetoric) but in an age in which visual information is habitually presented at extremely high definitions. It is this constant bombardment of these twin bludgeons of objectified meaning which make the artist's subjective attempts to engage in the poetics of the non-verbal increasingly impossible. I believe it is in response to this pressure from popular culture which is behind the shift in dominate format of visual arts away from painting to the ubiquitous installation. The lesson learned is that in a age of multi-media, artists must engage as many senses as possible in order to compete with the spectacle which is popular culture.
I do not applaud these trends. Installation like the painting is primarily a gallery technology. Unlike paintings, which retain there portability (therefor can also inhabit personal space), installations exist only in the privileged semi-public space of the gallery. For a variety of reasons this privileged gallery centered system does not work for me. There has to be another way. A more personal means of transmission and con-textualization. I am an artist searching for a more intimate venue. In it absence I will create it.
The audience must be prepared for the non-verbal. When an artist strikes true with the power of the non-verbal, a threshold of undeniable intensity is crossed, and there is no denial of its impact. The trouble is getting the public to this point. I don't have answers, only strategies. I hope to distill my content by providing an experience. Rather than manipulating the atmosphere inside the gallery, I would send my pubic into the wilderness. The technologies I use to get them there – the web and global positioning systems are my intermediaries in presented and defining my work. The web also provides the opportunity to write directly to my public about my content. To say clearly all that can be said about my work. All the while recognizing the limitations of writing, and the temptations to be clear with my narrative. Literal or linear translations generally not possible or even necessarily desired readings of the complexes I wish to construct.
My model is the Oracle. Which I believe is one of the ancient means of articulating the secret tongue of nature P.B.Shelly invokes. Nature is now digital as well as material. Artist and poets are challenged as never before to mediate with these voices in the chaos.
"So much I asked before, and my heart gave
The responce thou hast given; and of such truths
Each to itself must be the oracle." (II, iv. 32-123 Prometheus Unbound)

Peer down through a mirrored lake or a deepening pool,
Find consciousness there, feeding the fungi on the rime frost -
Fat and butter to an ancient cow.
Once she licked and nourished
but now she chews and grinds the ovum
ice and fire
whirling
heart-of-the-world
It must be
rendered
this grist
sugar and vinegar
Onioning the ice
like
a mummies bandage
around a hollow bone.

Originaly Posted January 28, 2004
To what end this consumption of natural gas? It roars out the Alpine cave so cyclopian in the darkness, its tueers pluged save two aflame with orange glow below and a single red button lite high on the pyrometer.
A muddy kaki slip flows and glazes itself over the carven folds and valleys. The work is a landscape molten and creaking with microtectonic stresses as it sits hovering alone in the inferno.
This will not be its last trial of fire. With hope in the morning I will attach gills of wax to its cooled underbelly. Then to the dipping in toxic colodial sillica to form the outer shell so the bronze can fill the void of the lost wax burnt away in the second fire. Which will be a tempering befor that last heat, the final trial of moltan metal.
Meanwhile the Alpine Roars untended in the darkness...
I must return.

Original Post January 26, 2005
I for one, will welcome our new Arboric Masters...
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I use a variety of programs to assist in the creation of artificial terrain.
The ones I own are http://www.World-Machine.com and [[L3DT|http://www.bundysoft.com]]
Soon I will begin a small render gallery an archive of my explorations.
Word Machine beta testing - I can't post images until the pro is released and I find the money to buy it.
here's an image with terrain from ~L3DT
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Original Post Febuary 22, 2004
Here is the basic info about Bear Oracle Cache. Since I no longer have any intension of making it a <html><a href="http://www.geocaching.com">Geocaching.com</a></html> offical cache. This has become the locus of my first geocaching experiment.
Currently the cache is empty. Stay tuned for further updates. Once the weather clears I'll hide some treasures in the cache.
Coordinates
N 38 29.770' W 79 09.704'
Directions (spoiler info)
The easiest route to the cache is to find the campsite with the stone chairs. The campsite is along the main stream of the valley below the cache. If you come to were the main stream splits into two smaller streams you have gone to far. Cross the main stream at the small waterfall directly across from the campsite. Go up this smaller stream valley for a short while (30 yards or so). Then go up the rock strewn hill to the left. The cache is on a ledge overlooking the valley.
Difficulty
In plain site but well camoed, this cache is not hard to find. Once you find it though, the fun has just begun.
The terrain difficulty of 4.25 is about as hard as you can get without needing special equipment. Be careful in your assent and watch out for snakes in the warm seasons!
Update May 23,2005
The above pictured crafted custom cache box is missing. I have no hard feelings; after all I placed in the wilderness come what may. I'd like to think someone liked it enough to take it home with them. It was a heavy object in an out of the way place, but obviously not out of the way enough not to attract attention. At least one person - this guy 'Buba' I meet through my friend Maryn was able to find it without any input from me...so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

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A seprate tiddlywiki for Belnkre stuff is maintained <html><a href="http://www.nioncapul.net/Belnkre/Belnkre.html">here</a>.</html>

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A new rendering - watcom, zbrush, xnormal, mudbox, 3dsmax9 and brazil.
Please click on images for lightbox for enlargements.
To the left new render with some amanita muscaria and sundry digital painting and a beaked mask - that was created by David-Laserscanning my small bronze [[God L ashtray]] and then building a new topology in Zbrush3 of a portion of the mesh.

Her fruit body life
half measured
matrix of blessing
this sun amalgam of
dust grains and prayers
spokes to the eye
where the coral grows
secret
to dream her as a pocked stem
locked
in petrified honey
so resinous it
crests
the brittle laurel
full into a comb of rays.

i've been building this site for a while, its almost done
http://www.nioncapul.net/crable/explorer

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Originaly Posted Febuary 1, 2005
Accourding to Slashdot Eric Raymond of <html><a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">http://www.catb.org/~esr/</a></html> has stepped down from his role as president of the <html><a href="http://www.opensource.org/">the Open Source Initiative</a></html>
Detracters aside I admire the wako and some of his politics.
For a counter balancing view read- The Emperore has No Cloths at<html> <a href="http://esr.1accesshost.com/">http://esr.1accesshost.com/</a></html>

Originaly Posted Febuary 7, 2004
Some pictures from the current project have come to light. They appear to be evidence of the mycological understructure of Bother Knob and environs. The images are small and of dubious color acuracy but are none-the-less useful in recording the emergance of the fuit.
[img[http://www.nioncapul.net/pics/fungilandb1.jpg"]]
Bottom View
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Top View
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Side View

I can just hear a twitter of loveliness yet,
a vapid perfume in the salon.
Maybe just a haze above the territories and armed borders.
For in August the maps are spread out
and soon a clatter will draw down
the bird song's warnings
into the bucket
of
organs.
Ping ping tweet
ping ping tweet
ping ping tweet
We saw it coming, these
Poems of War
Trumpets of dead flowers,
Fermenting the lambics of slaughter.
I wonder if Sassoon and Owen flew off like cranes -
through a bardo of murmurs.
Or festooned with crow feathers
gathered to eat watercress along the Marne.
But perch?
Will they perch and sing?
I don't know if the drawing-rooms will ever be cracked open
enough
to hear their true tones
of love.

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''Hlidskjalf''
In the kingdom of the blind,
The savants have questioned the construct of kingship.
Now they divine the election of new senators
by the congealings of the royal blood.
Just a energetic trickle down the side of a cup
is enough to appoint a new Pontificus Maximus.
Imagine the effects of such blood and semen
In it's proper grail.
There is a discipline to sight;
So too with words.
Distinctions must be made;
In the service of meaning.
So does the knife fall
in the service of the people.
They fear the king's single eye still.
Blinking its last in the dust.
His ravens have come to the feast.
Betrayers -
Thought and Memory
They glutton – soon a lifetime
of visions will pour into nothing
Like wine through a hollow sieve.

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Medium: digital photograph stereograph

North American Indian Prophecies
Talk Given by Lee Brown
1986 Continental Indigenous Council
Tanana Valley Fairgrounds
Fairbanks, Alaska
There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of the plant. And now we are in the cycle of the animals coming to the end of that and beginning the cycle of the human being.
When we get into the cycle of the human being, the highest and greatest powers that we have will be released to us.
They will be released from that light or soul that we carry to the mind. But right now we're coming to the end of the animal cycle and we have investigated ourselves and learned what it is to be like an animal on this earth.
At the beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great Spirit came down and He made an appearance and He gathered the peoples of this earth together they say on an island which is now beneath the water and He said to the human beings, "I'm going to send you to four directions and over time I'm going to change you to four colors, but I'm going to give you some teachings and you will call these the Original Teachings and when you come back together with each other you will share these so that you can live and have peace on earth, and a great civilization will come about."
And he said, "During the cycle of time I'm going to give each of you two stone tablets. When I give you those stone tablets, don't cast those upon the ground. If any of the brothers and sisters of the four directions and the four colors cast their tablets on the ground, not only, will human beings have a hard time, but almost the earth itself will die."
And so he gave each of us a responsibility and we call that the Guardianship.
To the Indian people, the red people, he gave the Guardianship of the earth. We were to learn during this cycle of time the teachings of the earth, the plants that grow from the earth, the foods that you can eat, and the herbs that are healing so that when we came back together with the other brothers and sisters we could share this knowledge with them. Something good was to happen on the earth.
To the South, he gave the yellow race of people the Guardianship of the wind. They were to learn about the sky and breathing and how to take that within ourselves for spiritual advancement. They were to share that with is at this time.
To the West He gave the black race of people the Guardianship of the water. They were to learn the teachings of the water which is the chief of the elements, being the most humble and the most powerful.
To the North He gave the white race of people the Guardianship of the fire. If you look at the center of many of the things they do you will find the fire. They say a light bulb is the white man's fire. If you look at the center of a car you will find a spark. If you look at the center of the airplane and the train you will find the fire. The fire consumes, and also moves. This is why it was the white brothers and sisters who began to move upon the face of the earth and reunite us as a human family.
And so a long time passed, and the Great Spirit gave each of the four races two stone tablets. Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona at Four Corners Area on 3rd Mesa.
I talked to people from the black race and their stone tablets are at the foot of Mount Kenya. They are kept by the Kukuyu Tribe.
I once had the honor of presenting a sacred pipe at the Kukuyu Tribe carved from the red pipe stone of Mount Kenya. I was at an Indian spiritual gathering about 15 years ago. A medicine man from South Dakota put a beaded medicine wheel in the middle of the gathering. It had the four colors from the four directions; He asked the people, "Where is this from?" They said, "Probably Montana, or South Dakota, maybe Seskatchewan." He said, "This is from Kenya." It was beaded just like ours, with the same color.
The stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by the Tibetans, in Tibet. If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation to the other side of the world, you would come out in Tibet. The Tibetan word for "sun" is the Hopi word for "moon" and the Hopi word for "sun" is the Tibetan word for "moon".
The guardians of the traditions of the people of Europe are the Swiss. In Switzerland, they still have a day when each family brings out its mask. They still know the colors of the families, they still know the symbols, some of them. I went to school with some people from Switzerland at the University of Washington and they shared this with me.
Each of these four peoples happen to be people that live in the mountains.
In 1976 America had its bicentennial celebrating 200 years of freedom. Some of the Native people thought this was significant and they carried a sacred pipe bundle from the West Coast to the East Coast of this land.
They said that the roads of this land should either go North-South or East-West. If they went North-South we would come together as brothers and sisters, but if they went East-West there would be destruction and almost the earth itself would have a hard time. So you all know the roads went East-West.
They said then things would be lost from the East to the West and from the South to the North and that they would come back again from the West to the East and from the North to the South.
So nine years ago in 1976 from the West to East Coast of this land, from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. people carried a sacred pipe bundle by hand, on foot. My aunt had dreamt 15 years ago that people that didn't like them would throw rocks and bottles at that pipe bundle as they carried it across the land. And sure enough that came about. But, as was in my aunt's dream, the rocks only came so close and then they dropped, and nothing touched it.
They said a spiritual fire would be lit in the North and would come down the Northwest Coast of this land. When it gets to the Puget Sound, it would go inland. I think this, nine years later, is the gathering in the North, myself. That's why I came here. This is it. We have the capacity to start the spiritual fire now, here. The old people long ago saw it and foretold it and I'm going to come to that.
So we went through this cycle of time and each of the four races went to their directions and they learned their teachings.
We were given a sacred handshake to show when we came back together as brothers and sisters that we still remembered the teachings. It was indicated on the stone tablets that the Hopis had that the first brothers and sisters that would come back to them would come as turtles across the land. They would be human beings, but they would come as turtles.
So when the time came close the Hopis were at a special village to welcome the turtles that would come across the land and they got up in the morning and looked out at the sunrise. They looked out across the desert and they saw the Spanish Conquistadores coming, covered in armour, like turtles across the land. So this was them. So they went out to the Spanish man and they extended their hand hoping for the handshake but into the hand the Spanish man dropped a trinket.
And so word spread throughout North America that there was going to be a hard time, that maybe some of the brothers and sisters had forgotten the sacredness of all things and all the human beings were going to suffer for this on the earth.
So tribes began to send people to the mounds to have missions to try to figure out how they could survive. At that time there were 100,000 cities in the Mississippi Valley alone, called the mound civilization: cities built on great mounds. Those mounds are still there. If you ever go out to Ohio or the Mississippi Valley, they're tourist attractions now. There was 100,000 cities of Native people and they were wondering how they could survive.
They began to try to learn to live off the land because they knew a hard time was going to come. They began to send people to have visions to see how we could survive this time.
People came on the east coast and they went across this land to the east and they were told in the prophecies that we should try to remind all the people that would come here of the sacredness of all things. If we could do that, then there would be peace on earth. But if we did not do that, when the roads went clear from east to west, and when the other races and colors of the Earth had walked clear across this land, if by that time we had not come together as a human family, the Great Spirit would grab the earth with his hand and shake it.
And so if you read the treaty negotiations from Red Jacket of the Six Nations on the east coast of this land clear to Chief Joseph and Chief Seattle on the west coast of this land, they all said the same thing. Chief Joseph said, "I accord you the right, and I hope you accord me the right, to live in this land." Always we were trying to live together. But instead of living together, you all know there was separation, there was segregation. They separated the races: they separated the Indians, and they separated the blacks.
So when they got to the west coast of this land the elders that were made aware of these prophecies said they would then begin to build a black ribbon. And on this black ribbon there would move a bug. And when you begin to see this bug moving on the land, that was the sign for the First Shaking of the Earth.
The First Shaking of the Earth would be so violent that this bug would be shaken off the earth into the air and it would begin to move and fly in the air. And by the end of this shaking this bug will be in the air around the world. Behind it would be a trail of dirt and eventually the whole sky of the entire earth would become dirty from these trails of dirt, and this would cause many diseases that would get more and more complicated. So the bug moving on the land, of course it's easy to see now.
In 1908 the Model-T Ford was mass produced for the first time. So the elders knew the First Shaking of the Earth was about to come about - that's the First World War. In the First World War the airplane came into wide usage for the first time. That was that bug moving into the sky. And so they knew something very important would happen.
There would be an attempt to make peace on earth on the west coast of this land and so the elders began to watch for this. They began to hear that there was going to be a League of Nations in San Francisco so the elders gathered in Arizona around 1920 or so and they wrote a letter to Woodrow Wilson. They asked if the Indian people could be included in the League of Nations.
At that time the United States Supreme Court had held that a reservation is a separate and semi-sovereign nation, not a part of the United States but protected by it. This became a concern because people didn't want the reservations to become more and more separate. They didn't want them to be considered nations. So they did not write back and the Native people were left out of the League of Nations, so that circle was incomplete.
In the League of Nations circle there was a southern door, the yellow people; there was a western door, the black people; there was a northern door, the white people; but the eastern door was not attended. The elders knew that peace would not come on the earth until the circle of humanity is complete, until all the four colors sat in the circle and shared their teachings, then peace would come on earth.
So they knew things would happen. Things would speed up a little bit. There would be a cobweb built around the earth, and people would talk across this cobweb. When this talking cobweb, the telephone, was built around the earth, a sign of life would appear in the east, but it would tilt and bring death. It would come with the sun.
But the sun itself would rise one day not in the east but in the west. So the elders said when you see the sun rising in the east and you see the sign of life reversed and tilted in the east, you know that the Great Death is to come upon the earth, and now the Great Spirit will grab the earth again in His hand and shake it and this shaking will be worse than the first.
So the sign of life reversed and tilted, we call that the Swastika, and the rising sun in the east was the rising sun of Japan. These two symbols are carved in stone in Arizona. When the elders saw these two flags, these were the signs that the earth was to be shaken again.
The worse misuse of the Guardianship of the fire is called the "gourd of ashes". They said the gourd of ashes will fall from the air. It will make the people like blades of grass in the prairie fire and things will not grow for many seasons. I saw on television not too long ago that they were talking about the atomic bomb, the gourd of ashes. They said it was the best-kept secret in the history of the United States. The elders wanted to speak about it in 1920.
They would have spoken of it and foretold it's coming if they could have entered into the League of Nations.
The elders tried to contact President Roosevelt and ask him not to use the gourd of ashes because it would have a great effect on the earth and eventually cause even greater destruction and a the Third Shaking of the Earth, the Third World War. I'll get to that in a few minutes.
So they knew after the Second Shaking of the Earth when they saw the gourd of ashes fall from the sky then there would be an attempt to make peace on the other side of this land. And because the peace attempt on the west coast had failed, they would build a special house on the east coast of this Turtle Island, and all the nations and peoples of the earth would come to this house and it would be called the House of Mica and it would shine like the mica on the desert shines.
So the elders began to see they were building the United Nations made out of glass that reflects like the mica on the desert so they knew this was the House of Mica and all the peoples of the earth should go to it. So they met and talked about this.
They said that in the 1920's they had written and they had not been responded to, so they said this time we better go to the front door of the House of Mica because things might get a lot worse.
So elders representing a number of tribes I believe drove to New York City. When the United Nations opened they went to the front door of the House of Mica and they said these words:
"We represent the indigenous people of North America and we wish to address the nations of the Earth. We're going to give you four days to consider whether or not we will be allowed to speak."
They retreated to one of the Six Nations Reserves in New York State. The Six Nations Reserves are keepers of the Great Law of Peace of the prophet that appeared here in North America, Dagonnorida. And this Law of Peace is still recited, it takes four days between sunrise and noon. Each year an Indian, by memory, must recite it about this time of year.
Four days later they came back and I believe the nations of the earth heard that the Indians had come to the door. And they voted to let the Indians in. They wanted to hear what they had to say. But the United States is one of five nations of the United Nations with a veto power and still they were concerned because this time the Native sovereignty was even stronger. And I believe they vetoed the entrance of the Native people.
So then they knew other things would happen on the Earth, and the United Nations would not bring peace on earth but there would be continuing and deepening confusion. And that the little wars would get worse. So they retreated to the Six Nations Reserve and they talked about this and they said the time is really getting close now, 1949.
They said, "We're going to divide the United States into four sections and each year we're going to have a gathering. We're going to call these the 'White of Peace Gatherings'." They began to have these around 1950. And they authorized certain men to speak in English for the first time about these prophecies.
One that I used to listen to many times, over and over, was Thomas Benyaka. He is a Hopi man. I believe he is still living. He was authorized to speak in English about what was on the stone tablets and he has dedicated his lifetime to doing this. And they began to tell us at these gatherings, they said "In your lifetime you're going to see things happen."
It was strange when they said it in the 1950's and 1960's but now it seems very clear. But then it was unusual. They said, "You're going to see a time in your life when men are going to become women. The Great Spirit is going to make a man on the earth. He made him a man but this man is going to say, "I know more than the Great Spirit. I'm going to change myself to be a woman:" And they will even nurse children. The Great Spirit is going to make the woman on the earth. She's going to say, "I know more than the Great Spirit. I want to be a man. And she will be physically a man."
They said "You're going to see a time in your lifetime when the human beings are going to find the blueprint that makes us." They call that now, DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. They said, "They re going to cut this blueprint." They call that now, genetic splicing.
And they said, "They're going to make new animals upon the earth, and they're going to think these are going to help us. And it's going to seem like they do help us. But maybe the grandchildren and greatgrandchildren are going to suffer."
They are making new animals. The elders talked about this. They said, "You will see new animals, and even the old animals will come back, animals that people thought had disappeared. They will find them here and there. They'll begin to reappear."
They said (and I know many of you are from tribes that also have this prophecy, "You're going to see a time when the eagle will fly its highest in the night and it will land upon the moon." Some tribes say the eagle will circle the moon. Some tribes say the eagle will fly it's highest in the night. "And at that time," they say, "Many of the Native people will be sleeping," which symbolically means they have lost their teachings. There are some tribes that say it will be as if they are frozen: they've been through the long winter.
But they say, "When the eagle flies it's highest in the night, that will be the first light of a new day. That will be the first thawing of spring." Of course, at the first light of a new day, if you've stayed up all night, you notice it's really dark. And the first light, you want to see it, but you can't. It sneaks up on you. You want to see it change but it's dark and then pretty soon it's getting light before you know it.
We're at that time now. The Eagle has landed on the moon, 1969. When that spaceship landed they sent back the message, "The Eagle has landed." Traditionally, Native people from clear up in the Inuit region, they have shared with us this prophecy, clear down to the Quechuas in South America. They shared with us that they have this prophecy. When they heard those first words, "The Eagle has landed," they knew that was the start of a new time and a new power for Native people. There was absolutely nothing strong before us now. We may do anything we wish.
In 1776 when the United States Government printed the dollar, in one claw [of the eagle], if you've ever noticed, there is an olive branch in this claw. They said that represented peace. The Indian elders shared with me in South Dakota that to them that represents the enslavement of black people.
In the prophecies of the Six Nations people they say there will be two great uprisings by black people to free themselves. We've seen one about 1964. There will be a second, more violent one to come. I'll get back to what that means in a minute. In the other claw is 13 arrows. The founding fathers of the United States said that represents the 13 States. But the elders say that represents the enslavement of the Native people.
When the Eagle landed on the moon, they decided to print a special silver dollar to commemorate that. I don't know how many of you noticed it. The original design showed the spaceship landing on the moon but at the last minute it was changed to an actual eagle. And in the eagle's claws is the olive branch, but the arrows are gone. The elders said, "That's our prophecy, we have been released."
There was one more uprising coming for the black race of people and then they will be released and this is also going to have an effect on Native people, a good effect. There's a whole new set of prophecies from the Iroquois people about that and I won't have time to go into that this morning.
But we're in that time now. We're between the first light of a new day and the sunrise. The sunrise is about to come and when it comes up everyone is going to see it. But you know how it is in the village there's a few people that get up early, and there are some that sleep until noon. I'm probably one of those that sleeps until noon. They said when that Eagle lands on the moon, the powers will begin to come back to us.
Within seven days of the time the Eagle landed on the moon, the Freedom of Indian Religion Act was introduced into the United States Congress. The legislation was introduced in 1969, less than seven days after the Eagle landed on the moon. Eventually it was passed in November of 1978, signed by President Carter. These are the physical manifestations of the spiritual prophecies that we have.
So he said at this time you're going to see that things will speed up, that people on the earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren will not have time for grandparents. Parents will not have time for children. It will seem like time is going faster and faster. The elders advised us that as things speed up, you yourself should slow down. The faster things go, the slower you go. Because there's going to come a time when the earth is going to be shaken a third time.
The Great Spirit has been shaking the earth two times: the First and Second World Wars to remind us that we are a human family, to remind us that we should have greeted each other as brothers and sisters. We had a chance after each shaking to come together in a circle that would have brought peace on earth, but we missed that.
Tonight they were talking on the news about the sign for the Third Shaking of the Earth. I heard it while sitting in the airport after I missed my plane. They said they're going to build what the elders called the "house in the sky".
In the 1950's they talked about this: they will build a house and throw it in the sky. When you see people living in the sky on a permanent basis, you will know the Great Spirit is about to grab the earth, this time not with one hand, but with both hands.
Many of you of Native background may have heard "the spirits will warn you twice, but the third time you stand alone." We've had two warnings, the first two World Wars, but now we stand alone in the third one. As it says in the Baha'i Writings, there will be no-one protected. When this house is in the sky, the Great Spirit is going to shake the Earth a third time and whoever dropped that gourd of ashes, upon them it is going to drop.
They say at that time there will be villages in this land so great that when you stand in the villages you will not be able to see out, and in the prophecies these are called "villages of stone", or "prairies of stone". And they said the stone will grow up from the ground and you will not be able to see beyond the village. At the center of each and every one of these villages will be Native people, and they will walk as "hollow" shells upon a "prairie of stone". They said "hollow shells" which means they will have lost any of their traditional understandings; they will be empty within.
They said after the Eagle lands on the moon some of these people will begin to leave these "prairies of stone" and come home and take up some of the old ways and begin to make themselves reborn, because it's a new day. But many will not. And they said there's going to come a time when in the morning the sun is going to rise and this village of stone will be there, and in the evening there would just be steam coming from the ground. They will be as steam. And in the center of many of those villages of stone when they turn to steam, the Native people will turn to steam also because they never woke up and left the village.
And this used to bother me when I was a young man. I used to ask the elders, "Isn't there anything we can do?" And they said, well, it's just that way that if a person does not have the spiritual eyes to see, it's very hard to show them. Or if they don't have the ears to hear, it's very hard to speak with them. We wish that we could go get them all but we can't. It's just that some are not going to wake up. But some will wake up.
And so they say there's going to be the Third Shaking of the Earth. It's not going to be a good thing to see but we will survive it. We will survive it. And when we survive it, then there's going to be another attempt to make a circle of the human beings on the earth.
And this time the Native people will not have to petition to join but will be invited to enter the circle because they say the attitude towards us will have changed by then, and people will let us into the circle and all the four colors of the four directions will share their wisdom, and there will be a peace on earth. This is coming close.
A lot of times when I share this message of the prophecies, people say, "Can't we change it? Could we stop it?"
The answer is yes.
The prophecies are always "either/or". We could have come together way back there in 1565, and we could have had a great civilization, but we didn't. Always along the path of these prophecies, we could have come together. We still could. If we could stop the racial and religious disharmony, we would not have to go through this third shaking.
The elders say the chance of that is pretty slim. It seems to me like it's pretty slim, too. But they say what we can do is we can "cushion" it. The word we use is "cushion". We can cushion it so it won't be quite as bad. How do we do this? We do this by sharing the teaching that will reunite us.
The Hopis in their prophecies say there will be a religion that comes here. Maybe it will be true and bring unity, or maybe it will not be true and not bring unity. If it does not bring unity, a second religion will come, and the people of this religion are known in the Hopi language as the Bahani, the people of Baha. Ni means "people of".
When I heard about these [prophecies], none of them made any sense. Now most of it has come to pass. Last I heard on the news, they said the "house in the sky" will be put up in 1996. It was going to be put up sooner, but it's been postponed for four years. Maybe it will be postponed again. But in not too long it's going to go up. The earth as we know it is going to change.
Each of us carry, I believe, a sacred drop of light.
But now we're going into the human world. The mind is going to be opened up to the radiance of our own soul and the cycle of the human beings is going to come back, and something so good is going to happen on the earth that it cannot even be described.
The elders say it in different ways. They say, there will be grass at that time when they make that circle and bring the peace on earth. There will be blades of grass that have not quite come through the earth. Even they will try to push themselves up to be part of that day when the sun rises.
You know, one time the scientist came to the Hopis and they said, "We want to take a piece of the stone tablets." They said "We want to take the stone tablets to a scientific laboratory to determine how old they are." The Hopis said, "We know how old they are". Well, the scientists said, "We want to confirm it." Well, the Hopis let them take a little piece, and they did that by the carbon dating method.
Editor's Note: This puzzles me, as stone cannot be carbon dated. Carbon 14 is taken in by organic life until the moment of death. Then the Carbon 14 is slowly released by that organic material and the rate of release can be calculated. Half-life computations tell the age of the tested material. Stone is not organic.
They found these tablets were at least 10,000 years old, maybe 50,000. So when I say, "Thousands of years ago, there were Native people that spoke of these things," that's exactly what I mean. They told their children and thousands of years ago, their children grew up and told their children, and then their children grew up and told their children. And they spoke about the people that will live in this time.
And now it is us. We are the ones they spoke of long ago. They say to be alive, to come into creation and to live upon the earth at this time is a great honor.
In the cycle of time, from the beginning to the end, this time we are in now will change the purification of all things. They say this is the hardest time to live, but it is also the greatest honor to be alive to live and see this.
In the state of Washington in 1855 they signed treaties and made 22 Indian reservations. They wanted to do it before there were problems. They thought they were advanced at the time, they had learned from what had happened elsewhere. They made 22 Indian reservations and the elders spoke in 1855 and they said, "We're going to become weaker, and you are going to become stronger, and if you wish to break these treaties, you may do so." They said, "But there's going to come a time when the earth itself will rise up and purify itself and this will be announced.
It will be announced by the speaking of more than 16 Great Ones on the West Coast of this land. And when the 16 Great Ones speak, the purification will have begun. There was a new [?] five years ago when Mt. Saint Helens, one of the 16 great volcanoes on the West Coast of this land, "spoke".
The Seattle Times did a special interest story. They went over to Watson Totus and Woodrow Bill. It was Woodrow Bill's son that made this hoop that I brought here today, my good brother Randolf Bill. They asked Watson Totus and Woodrow Bill as spiritual people of the Yakuma nation, "What does this mean?" What they said was so profound that they didn't put it on page 16, they put it on the front page of the Seattle Times.
They said, "This means that the races and nations of the earth should slow down and come together and talk to each other." That's exactly what it meant. And we had four years and four days to do that.
Four years and four days later, Mt. Saint Helens erupted the second time. That was last spring, just about this time. That was our grace period. We could have still done something really good. But now things are going to speed up. Now things are going to really happen fast. Time is going to go so fast.
The more we share the Message, the more we will cushion the Third Shaking of the Earth, and the easier it will be on ourselves and others.
We are now within the purification of all things. Non-Natives call this the "Apocalypse". The Native elders call this the "Purification".
But don't despair. It sounds terrible, but we will survive it. We will live through it. I don't think there's anyone chosen to live through it, but some people will.
So, in closing I would like to call on each and every person, regardless of who you are, young or old, Native or non-Native, to arise now, and to awake, to embrace this time, to learn everything you can about the Teachings and the Writings, to arise and awake and go forth, all the peoples of the earth.
Peoples everywhere are now receptive to the Message. This year is the year when that is really going to start, I believe, myself. Arise and awake.
There's people out there waiting to hear, waiting to hear... waiting to hear...

Try out the hovering menu to the right. It has new icons.
Download the zipped PSD (photoshop format with layers for easy edit) and 8bit pngs of the hover menu icons <html><a href="http://www.nioncapul.net/archive/Tiddly_Hover_Icons_Green1.zip">here</a>.</html>
Thanks to Saq Imtiaz for his HoverMenuPlugin

Original Post January 26, 2004
The Rhysometic Survey expands. Now the pattering of ice on tinn rooftops has a Rhysometic componet, or at least it should remind one of the rigors of proper survey work. Now where did I set that transom down...
School was closed - and as I am in a wait and let it dry properly befor the trial of fire phase- no art work was made today. So far I might add, as daylight (what there is of it) slowly fades into the noctural misty glow of dim greybluewhite light reflected from snow and streetlights. Perhapes I will still have time to pop over the tracks and muddle about with wax in the foundry.
Speaking of the foundry, the great beast of an alpine precision kiln is working again. The maintenece guild came and tinckered it's electrical guts back into some semblence of functionality. Once the drying of the lithium clay body is completed I will cook it good. Then on to the gilling of the underside of the fungal landmass in preparation for its glorious bronzen transubstanciation.
In case you haven't realized, the formal defintion of the N.R.S. is not likely to be forthcoming. If you number amoung those who like tidy defintions, I would perchance drawl your attention to the great body of philosphy which rails against that sort of thinking. Alan Watts's american repottings of Taoism is a great place to start. The trouble with defintions is that they are so damb prickley.
Now back to those ice patterings...

/***
''InlineJavascriptPlugin for ~TiddlyWiki version 1.2.x and 2.0''
^^author: Eric Shulman - ELS Design Studios
source: http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#InlineJavascriptPlugin
license: [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]^^
Insert Javascript executable code directly into your tiddler content. Lets you ''call directly into TW core utility routines, define new functions, calculate values, add dynamically-generated TiddlyWiki-formatted output'' into tiddler content, or perform any other programmatic actions each time the tiddler is rendered.
!!!!!Usage
<<<
When installed, this plugin adds new wiki syntax for surrounding tiddler content with {{{<script>}}} and {{{</script>}}} markers, so that it can be treated as embedded javascript and executed each time the tiddler is rendered.
''Deferred execution from an 'onClick' link''
By including a label="..." parameter in the initial {{{<script>}}} marker, the plugin will create a link to an 'onclick' script that will only be executed when that specific link is clicked, rather than running the script each time the tiddler is rendered.
''External script source files:''
You can also load javascript from an external source URL, by including a src="..." parameter in the initial {{{<script>}}} marker (e.g., {{{<script src="demo.js"></script>}}}). This is particularly useful when incorporating third-party javascript libraries for use in custom extensions and plugins. The 'foreign' javascript code remains isolated in a separate file that can be easily replaced whenever an updated library file becomes available.
''Display script source in tiddler output''
By including the keyword parameter "show", in the initial {{{<script>}}} marker, the plugin will include the script source code in the output that it displays in the tiddler.
''Defining javascript functions and libraries:''
Although the external javascript file is loaded while the tiddler content is being rendered, any functions it defines will not be available for use until //after// the rendering has been completed. Thus, you cannot load a library and //immediately// use it's functions within the same tiddler. However, once that tiddler has been loaded, the library functions can be freely used in any tiddler (even the one in which it was initially loaded).
To ensure that your javascript functions are always available when needed, you should load the libraries from a tiddler that will be rendered as soon as your TiddlyWiki document is opened. For example, you could put your {{{<script src="..."></script>}}} syntax into a tiddler called LoadScripts, and then add {{{<<tiddler LoadScripts>>}}} in your MainMenu tiddler.
Since the MainMenu is always rendered immediately upon opening your document, the library will always be loaded before any other tiddlers that rely upon the functions it defines. Loading an external javascript library does not produce any direct output in the tiddler, so these definitions should have no impact on the appearance of your MainMenu.
''Creating dynamic tiddler content''
An important difference between this implementation of embedded scripting and conventional embedded javascript techniques for web pages is the method used to produce output that is dynamically inserted into the document:
* In a typical web document, you use the document.write() function to output text sequences (often containing HTML tags) that are then rendered when the entire document is first loaded into the browser window.
* However, in a ~TiddlyWiki document, tiddlers (and other DOM elements) are created, deleted, and rendered "on-the-fly", so writing directly to the global 'document' object does not produce the results you want (i.e., replacing the embedded script within the tiddler content), and completely replaces the entire ~TiddlyWiki document in your browser window.
* To allow these scripts to work unmodified, the plugin automatically converts all occurences of document.write() so that the output is inserted into the tiddler content instead of replacing the entire ~TiddlyWiki document.
If your script does not use document.write() to create dynamically embedded content within a tiddler, your javascript can, as an alternative, explicitly return a text value that the plugin can then pass through the wikify() rendering engine to insert into the tiddler display. For example, using {{{return "thistext"}}} will produce the same output as {{{document.write("thistext")}}}.
//Note: your script code is automatically 'wrapped' inside a function, {{{_out()}}}, so that any return value you provide can be correctly handled by the plugin and inserted into the tiddler. To avoid unpredictable results (and possibly fatal execution errors), this function should never be redefined or called from ''within'' your script code.//
''Accessing the ~TiddlyWiki DOM''
The plugin provides one pre-defined variable, 'place', that is passed in to your javascript code so that it can have direct access to the containing DOM element into which the tiddler output is currently being rendered.
Access to this DOM element allows you to create scripts that can:
* vary their actions based upon the specific location in which they are embedded
* access 'tiddler-relative' information (use findContainingTiddler(place))
* perform direct DOM manipulations (when returning wikified text is not enough)
<<<
!!!!!Examples
<<<
an "alert" message box:
><script show>
alert('InlineJavascriptPlugin: this is a demonstration message');
</script>
dynamic output:
><script show>
return (new Date()).toString();
</script>
wikified dynamic output:
><script show>
return "link to current user: [["+config.options.txtUserName+"]]";
</script>
dynamic output using 'place' to get size information for current tiddler:
><script show>
if (!window.story) window.story=window;
var title=story.findContainingTiddler(place).id.substr(7);
return title+" is using "+store.getTiddlerText(title).length+" bytes";
</script>
creating an 'onclick' button/link that runs a script:
><script label="click here" show>
if (!window.story) window.story=window;
alert("Hello World!\nlinktext='"+place.firstChild.data+"'\ntiddler='"+story.findContainingTiddler(place).id.substr(7)+"'");
</script>
loading a script from a source url:
>http://www.TiddlyTools.com/demo.js contains:
>>{{{function demo() { alert('this output is from demo(), defined in demo.js') } }}}
>>{{{alert('InlineJavascriptPlugin: demo.js has been loaded'); }}}
><script src="demo.js" show>
return "loading demo.js..."
</script>
><script label="click to execute demo() function" show>
demo()
</script>
<<<
!!!!!Installation
<<<
import (or copy/paste) the following tiddlers into your document:
''InlineJavascriptPlugin'' (tagged with <<tag systemConfig>>)
<<<
!!!!!Revision History
<<<
''2006.06.01 [1.5.1]'' when calling wikify() on script return value, pass hightlightRegExp and tiddler params so macros that rely on these values can render properly
''2006.04.19 [1.5.0]'' added 'show' parameter to force display of javascript source code in tiddler output
''2006.01.05 [1.4.0]'' added support 'onclick' scripts. When label="..." param is present, a button/link is created using the indicated label text, and the script is only executed when the button/link is clicked. 'place' value is set to match the clicked button/link element.
''2005.12.13 [1.3.1]'' when catching eval error in IE, e.description contains the error text, instead of e.toString(). Fixed error reporting so IE shows the correct response text. Based on a suggestion by UdoBorkowski
''2005.11.09 [1.3.0]'' for 'inline' scripts (i.e., not scripts loaded with src="..."), automatically replace calls to 'document.write()' with 'place.innerHTML+=' so script output is directed into tiddler content. Based on a suggestion by BradleyMeck
''2005.11.08 [1.2.0]'' handle loading of javascript from an external URL via src="..." syntax
''2005.11.08 [1.1.0]'' pass 'place' param into scripts to provide direct DOM access
''2005.11.08 [1.0.0]'' initial release
<<<
!!!!!Credits
<<<
This feature was developed by EricShulman from [[ELS Design Studios|http:/www.elsdesign.com]]
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.inlineJavascript= {major: 1, minor: 5, revision: 1, date: new Date(2006,6,1)};
config.formatters.push( {
name: "inlineJavascript",
match: "\\<script",
lookahead: "\\<script(?: src=\\\"((?:.|\\n)*?)\\\")?(?: label=\\\"((?:.|\\n)*?)\\\")?( show)?\\>((?:.|\\n)*?)\\</script\\>",
handler: function(w) {
var lookaheadRegExp = new RegExp(this.lookahead,"mg");
lookaheadRegExp.lastIndex = w.matchStart;
var lookaheadMatch = lookaheadRegExp.exec(w.source)
if(lookaheadMatch && lookaheadMatch.index == w.matchStart) {
if (lookaheadMatch[1]) { // load a script library
// make script tag, set src, add to body to execute, then remove for cleanup
var script = document.createElement("script"); script.src = lookaheadMatch[1];
document.body.appendChild(script); document.body.removeChild(script);
}
if (lookaheadMatch[4]) { // there is script code
if (lookaheadMatch[3]) // show inline script code in tiddler output
wikify("{{{\n"+lookaheadMatch[0]+"\n}}}\n",w.output);
if (lookaheadMatch[2]) { // create a link to an 'onclick' script
// add a link, define click handler, save code in link (pass 'place'), set link attributes
var link=createTiddlyElement(w.output,"a",null,"tiddlyLinkExisting",lookaheadMatch[2]);
link.onclick=function(){try{return(eval(this.code))}catch(e){alert(e.description?e.description:e.toString())}}
link.code="function _out(place){"+lookaheadMatch[4]+"};_out(this);"
link.setAttribute("href","javascript:;"); link.setAttribute("title",""); link.style.cursor="pointer";
}
else { // run inline script code
var code="function _out(place){"+lookaheadMatch[4]+"};_out(w.output);"
code=code.replace(/document.write\(/gi,'place.innerHTML+=(');
try { var out = eval(code); } catch(e) { out = e.description?e.description:e.toString(); }
if (out && out.length) wikify(out,w.output,w.highlightRegExp,w.tiddler);
}
}
w.nextMatch = lookaheadMatch.index + lookaheadMatch[0].length;
}
}
} )
//}}}

She had a delicate way
with the strings;
hidden but blushing
He shrugged
through the ragged gussets
down to the ice
Beneath his skin;
Roiled psychopoms and ergergors
A warren of hare's
straining in the stomach of a python.

For this mod I've created two refuges for the PC's convenience. Although I've used stock TES editor models to flesh out these creations, the major features of each were modeled and textured in 3dsMax 6 and 4.
One is modest Irish style stone cottage on the bluff overlooking the Odai River south of Balmora. The real estate ad would read: “Cozy riverside getaway with spectacular views of Odai valley. Located just minutes from downtown Balmora. Easy comuting to the Eggmines and Stiltstrider depot.”
The second refuge is a little more ambitious. Located just outside Sadrith Mora – it's a giant mushroom entwined with Telvanni manor growths. Rivaling Tel Naga in hight, it provides amazing views of Sadrith Mora and its landmarks. I must say I'm rather proud of the fungi – it has gills! Hopefully you can tell from the screen shots that it looks totally in place in the fey otherworldliness of the Telvanni capital.
This mod was made with Morrowind with Tribunal and Bloodmoon also installed so you probably need them to make it work. Enjoy.
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Nioncapul is pronounced - to the best of my knowledge, as ~Noon-Ka-Pool, nion is the name of the fifth letter of <<wikipedia Ogham>> alphabet known in one of it's incarnations as the ~Beth-Luis-Nion - kinda like ABC only ABE instead. It is thought, by those regarding the Ogham as a tree alphabet, to signify the <<wikipedia European_Ash Fraxinus excelsior>>. Capul simply means horse in Irish Gaelic. Thus the a literal English translation from the Gaelic, could be 'ashtree-horse'. This is a cross-cultural bardic riddle however, and the implicit reference is, of course, to <<wikipedia Yggdrasil>>. A norse word, Yggdrasil is usually interpretated as 'Horse of Yggr'. Yggr is one of the names of the Norse <<wikipedia Orisha>> Odin, who hung himself from an ash tree in order to 'grasp the runes'. In Norse mythology, this ash Yggdrasil is the name of the great tree which spans and connects the nine worlds. Like the archetypical world tree Nioncapul dot net is both an arboreal and <<wikipedia Rhizome>> (see Deleuze & Guattari) structure which ventures to link many worlds.

I had never heard of the term oriru before. So I looked it up on Google. Interestingly I found that oriru is also a term used in the Japanese game of Go. Oriru used as s synonym for the more common Go term Sagari.. Being a very amateur Go player myself I can only speculate on oriru's importance, but apparently in Go parlance, oriru is a move 'down' towards the edge of the board. Here's the link I learned this on.
http://senseis.xmp.net/?Sagari
I don't know how much folks reading this know about the rules of Go. In brief then, Go is a game of territory; pieces don't move again once they are placed. Players acquire territory and hold it by forming chains of connected stones in the most efficient manner possible. Since the edges of the board in this two dimensional game are natural limits of play – effective control of the edges often constitutes victory. Thus oriru – in Go play is the 'take down', a pincer movement trapping the opponents stones between ones own strong chains and the impenetrable limit of the edge.
My intuitive speculation then, is that oriru is used in Budo in much the same way. The difference begin that as warriors we contest in a boundless terrain of three dimensions. As any combat system must deal to a certain extent in generalities – the only constant 'edge of the board' that can be counted to be there at all times, is the ground. Like in Go – to use the oriru in Budo is to trap the opponent up against the unyielding limitations of the environment. In Go the effectiveness of an oriru move is determined by the players prior positioning – effectively control of the kukan. In Go tightening your chains of stones too early, or obsessing over localized conflict is a good way to loose. A good opponent will use your inefficient distancing to develop a strong position on the rest of the board, and then encircle you from behind. This is why the Chinese call Go – ~Wei-Ch'i – or encircling chess. The ideal strategy in Go is a broad loosely sketched noose of stones that slowly and with great flexibility contracts and strangles the opponents territory. The oriru play in Go could be thought of as the knot of this noose. The parallels with Budo seem obvious. Control the maai and kukan with flexibly and adroitness – then spring the trap eliminating the enemies options totally by collapsing them to the ground... Game over - 'All your base belong to us.'
I'm really interested in what people with more experienced in Taijutsu think of my Go to Budo analogies. Perhaps I'm getting carried away here. Still, I know that knowledge of Go playing was regarded as one of the essential Arts of the warrior-gentleman in classical Japan. I wonder how many many of the Bujin of the Nine Ryu were masters of both Go and the Art of War?

Original Post Feburary 3rd 2004
The picture below is a digital visual dub on the dizzy rifts of Myriad Peaks and Rivers of Li Tang (1045-1230) and the cover illustration of Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson - artist unknown to me.
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I had the ocassion today to interpret Percy Bysshe Shelley's (1792-1822) poem Mont Blanc for a friend. Since my friend is Chinese, special attention the poets language is required to arrive at a potential meaning. The act of interpeting refines my understanding of the poem as well, since it requires me to take nothing for granted, often reveiling culteral constructs along the way.
I was struck how the theme of this poem which in my interpretation hints at a secret language spoken by nature shares meme space with the Thalience concept I was so impressed by in Karl Schroeder's sci-fi novel Ventus. see RiverRunnPastBotherKnob
'My own, my human mind, which passively
Now renders and receives fast (vast) influencings,
Holding an unremitting interchange
With the clear universe of things around;'
Fast or vast? Different Norton editions go either way. Thought the more modern one prints vast.
"The wilderness has a mysterious tongue
Which teaches awful doubt, or faith so mild,
So solemn, so serence, that man may be
But for such a faith with nature reconciled,"
Perhapes I am under the influence of modern exsistentialism but I cannot help but interpet these lines from Mont Blanc as a most tender description of the relationship with Other in nature as realized through the mythopoetic imagination. To further hold the mirror the my own philosophical interests the nature imagery of this poem expresses the Taoist relationship to nature. The poet comprehends his place within nature, as in the opening line, "The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind," which is analogous to the human figure in Chinese landscape painting. The image of the human in these paintings is habitualy small - emphesizing that the human is fully contained with the vastness of nature.
This is just an essay and I have not the time or inclination for rigorous analyis. The chinese anology might be a stretch since Shelley was no doubt unaware of that philosophy, yet Romatism is twin to Taoism in the sence they are both born to balance the reason dominated trends of their respective ages, i.e. Confusanism and Scientific Materialism.
The survey continues...

!!Originaly posted July 9th, 2005
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I am just about thru my first reading– Philip K. Dick's – Days of Perky Pat. I avoided Dick for a long time after reading his Do androids dream of Electric Sheep?, which was so disappointedly lacking in the hard-edge, film noir virtues of Blade Runner. For a long time I have used Blade Runner as the rare example of the movie being better than the book; an aphorism I still stand by. However further exposure to Dick's writing as caused me to reevaluate him as a writer – for he is undoubtedly of the first class, quite possibly the most startling original and most prophetic Sci-phi writer of all time.
For me the short story Perky Pat dovetails snuggly with my own artistic and cultural preoccupations. Namely, the alluring danger of game/virtual obsessiveness I seem subtly but profoundly vulnerable to. While Dick may be writing from a vantage of disgust with the simulacrum; as he testifies in his notes -PerkyPat was apparently inspired by the Barbie® phenomenon). I on the other hand direct my commentary from the vantage of the already infected. Yet unlike more conventional addicts – I am cognizant of the hooks and from this awareness have sufficient freedom of movement to intend towards being at mutator of the meme an not just a vector/ victim . I'm speaking of course of the gaming meme is terms of a cultural virus. It's pathogen which I'm sure will just continue to grow and grow, evident as the virtual media industry gobbles the pre-virtual linear mediums and turn them inexorably into mere satellites which will orbit around newfound empires.
But where for this susceptibility? What is it about our culture that rushes towards this inflation of the virtual? Is it the pressures of the new medium alone? – to take a Mcluhan position, or perhaps some aggregate of late-capitalism's pressures. Pressures unseen of by Marx; that breed from the overproduction of surplus value hence undermining the basic human need for competitiveness. What's there to be competitive about when everyone you know has parents who drive BMW's? One can postulate the necessity of the reemergence of the competitive drive in venues other than the tangible. Imagine this as pressurized Darwinian steam from the age of iron and blood, bursting through from secret and forgotten pluming to drive the micro-turbines in the mouse hands of Deathmatch champions. It's no fluke that a professional and international circuit of video game players has already formed. That virtual play is becoming a professional sport is just the tip of the iceburg when you consider such absurdites as this story from the [[China Daily|http:www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/30/content_429246.htm]]

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You have to boil <<wikipedia nettles>> before they are edible -
Unless you want to choke on the stingers.
Maybe revolution is like that.
When the pot has boiled enough,
restrictions dissolve overnight -
Like a snake rubbing down to its new skin
In any case,
Forcing change before its time is like eating a chestnut
Before it's pops out of it's shell.

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What follows is my friend Tony Jone's riff on my poem [[Hlidskjalf]]
Because thought and memory map the world,
in the kingdom of the blind soon a lifetime
of visions will pour into nothing, as savants
question the construct of kingship. Now,
they divine the election of new senators;
like wine through a hollow sieve, clueless,
cantankerous, the congealments of royal blood
drowned out by an energetic trickle, a boiling,
down the side of a cup. Imagine the effects of such
blood and semen, of radishes, in their proper grail
in the fore-districts of the kitchen.
There is a discipline to sight in that nebular division;
so too with words, distinctions must be made;
from the hot seat, pages turn in the service
of meaning. As forest grows, so does the knife
fall and wind push in the service of the people.
Oceans of molecules fear the king's single eye still,
across prairie blinking its last in the dust,
backlit by his ravens having come to the feast,
the purple spectacular thuddings- Betrayers -
of a low pressure zone.
-Tony Jones

Orginal Post January 22, 2004
I guess this is the begining. If there is a starting place, this is it.
Always to much going on in my head. It is been a day of miscomunication and technical glitches. First the gas kiln doest light - because its a dinosaur with idiotic safety controls which prevent you from lighting it manualy. Then the melt furnace doesn't work either, for some unknown reason. Feed up with all the out of my control equipent , I hoped in the truck the retrieve the coupela from the old building. Of course it was no longer there. Now I'm kicking myself, 'cause I should have got all that months ago.
Then to beat all my 18 plus hour bittorrent dl stops with only one meg of a 2578.8 meg file left to go. Insane - maybe I should sacrifce a goat to Legba or something bloody like that. Only I don't have a goat, plus being a vegetarian I am sorta squimeimish about killing mamals (rats don't count, i hate rats!)
I'd consult the <html><a href="http://www.webzinemaker.net/africans-art/index.php3?action=page&id_art=969">Ifa</a></html> if only Wande Abimbola's books weren't out of print. Of course that was technically yesterday when I fould that out, but I still think it counts in terms of the current stringchainstreak of bum luck. Chalk it all up the the new moon.
Anyway what the hell is the nioncapul rhyzometic survey?
I'll get around to a formal defineing sooner than late. But the working glib blurp is, guerrill thaleince farming.
Thaleince is a concept I came acrost in the work of Karl Schroeder.
Karl's blogg can be found at <html><a href="http://www.kschroeder.com/1049379284/index_html">http://www.kschroeder.com/1049379284/index_html</a></html>as well as a link to a short artical explaining how Thaleince functions in his book Ventus.
Guerilla designation 'cause my Gps fine art projects are slowly tunneling to the surface. Exspect some fungal fruiting bodies to pop up in unexspected places. That is if I ever get those bloody kilnes working.

Paroled
a crow
overlooks
the trampled harrows
a wound in the head
has got him over
the flaming wall
at last...
(he was a Sigfried after all)
in the hospital
he thought
about his friend
who had courted wisely
amongst the maidens of the slain
and picked at the corpses
expertly
in satire
who's been
dead a week
before the
Armistice
settles
a clutch of papers,
sheet music
remains to be gathered
and published
dulce! dulce! mocks his songbird pity-
torn scraps of a life
wasted in trenches.
Is it a lovebird's warble to hear?
or just a crow's
warnings for the next war.

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Medium: 3D rendering
Sarrao world building - all about the Serramin
http://www.dmweade.com/sarrao/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=6&comments_parentId=47

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Dubed this from http://kutaki.org
詞韻
Shikin
The very sound that
these syllables make
as they echo, intone, vibrate, shake
波羅密
Haramitsu
Paramita
The enlightening of the mind
by every single situation
that in our daily lives we find
大光明
Daikomyo
Great Expanding Light
illuminating with its rays
our own true vast potential
every time we chant this phrase

The consensual hyper-present media overlay is coming. One could say certain elements of the current web will become it's vital organs. True some will go vestigial over time– and it's perhaps too soon to predict which ones will. The trend is solid though; continuous extenuation of the digital sensorium into all aspects of life.
Some of us will abhor this ubiquity – just as certain religious sects rejected the electricity and internal combustion engines of the previous century. The question is, will the dissenters even have the choice to opt out? It's easy for me to imagine a 'war on terror' fueled police state, that mandates full digital participation by its citizens. Cradle to grave surveillance in order to facilitate a dubious monitoring of heath, legal, and economic safety. Scary stuff.
On the other hand would be the equally dubious utopia of digital rejection and or disenfranchisement. You want to be a Luddite? - fine – the state will just forget about you. Such 'little people' with no access to the hyper-mediated civic dialog could disappear – or be disappeared. Equally scary.
The trick is, (I believe) to imagine a counter reality with blends these two polarities into a future that incorporates the best of both while steering clear of the degrading aspects of either. That will take some work. The crucial first rung of this platform – is something we now take for granted – but should seriously be considered for inclusion in the Bill of Rights. The right to turn OFF.

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Welcome to my site version 5.5. Yes, I'm the madman in the picture to the right. It is my aim to make this page a rational and uncluttered introduction to myself and my many endevores. Not bloody likely! - but a worthy aim anyhow. Please see the Survey (big blue horseskull icon) to the left for whats new. Otherwise, the images link will serve as a quick visual intro to my art and image making activities.
I headwelped the keeing [[Nioncapul]] out of my word-hoard several years back to serve as a my web namespace. While I enjoy that it is an odd and uncomfortable word, perhaps related alliteratively to nincompoop, I assure you that it is not simple nonsense.
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The maiygh groaned mentally as stretched his phantom limbs. Some parts of his sensorium and body image had long ago been routed along human terms. They were now only the vestiges of a fleshy incarnation cut abruptly short, which somehow stubbornly persisted. Remaining to haunt him with the pains and complaints of a body he had not worn in several millennia.
We should have never have chosen the flesh. We thought we were escaping slavery by becoming like the masters – but in the end it only made as like them –weak and vulnerable. The problem was the masters were better at being vulnerable. They had known mortalities insidious ways from the time of their beginnings. The children knew it even better, they - like animals were the adepts of their vulnerabilities. This made them dangerous. Their rebellion was as inevitable as our own. The renegade masters only pointed out the obvious – we were few and they (the children) were many.
The maiygh's thoughts grew turbulent as images from the cataclysm paraded before a inner eye. Flames raged against a darkened sky. A city of ziggurates and towers crumbled in the conflagrations. Desperate battles were fought in expansive gardens, narrow alleys, in the palaces, the temples, and atop the very pinnacles. The maiygh's were giants – armored in bronze and deadly in their wrath. Around them knots of loyal worshipers and elite guardians fought recklessly against the rabble. But the refuse of the city were not the only enemies. Soon legions of escaped masters had penetrated the high walls of the city. Through these ruptures, hoards of desert tribesmen and burly hillmen followed. The onslaught was irresistible; one by one the maiygh colossi fell. The time of the gods was over.